DeSantis criticizes harsh sentences for J6 defendants, suggests pardons and commutations if elected.
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis condemns “excessive sentences” for January 6 riot defendants
In a recent interview on Newsmax with Eric Bolling, Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis expressed his disapproval of the harsh sentences handed out to some of the defendants involved in the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
When asked about the possibility of pardoning or commuting some of the longer sentences, DeSantis stated, “We will look at all those cases. There’s some examples of people that should not have been prosecuted. They just walked into the Capitol. If they were BLM, they would not have been prosecuted.”
DeSantis went on to highlight the disparity in sentencing, saying, ”Then there’s other examples of people that probably did commit misconduct, they may have been violent, but to say it’s an act of terrorism when it was basically a protest that devolved into a riot, to do excessive sentences — you can look at, okay maybe they were guilty, but 22 years if other people that did other things got six months?”
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DeSantis emphasized the need for a single standard of justice, stating, “I think we need a single standard of justice, and so we’ll use pardons and commutations as appropriate to ensure that everyone’s treated equally, and as we know, a lot of people with the BLM riots, they didn’t get prosecuted at all.”
Watch the interview:
🚨 DeSantis on the Proud Boys sentences and on Enrique Tarrio’s 22-year sentence — calls them “excessive sentences” and promises to look at pardons and commutations for the January 6 defendants.pic.twitter.com/rwfXj7gBAN
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